Hi,

Can someone point me to a sample of a winform app using an AVI animation in
C# or VB.NET.
I want to show show an animation while my app is processing ...Similar the
the spinning globe in IE.

Thanks
Greg

I believe the only way to currently show an AVI in .NET is with DirectShow
(DX9).
An alterantive though would be to create an animated GIF.
Those work fine in a picturebox control.
-paul

"Greg Bielleman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Can someone point me to a sample of a winform app using an AVI animation
in
> C# or VB.NET.
> I want to show show an animation while my app is processing ...Similar the
> the spinning globe in IE.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
>
>

The only other option I can think of would be to create your own 'animation'
in code, by loading and displaying a sequence of still frames from Memory
or Disk
If the animation isn't very large, only a couple seconds, this shouldn't be
too bad.

-paul


"Greg Bielleman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the quick reply...
>
> Aren't GIFs a bit limited in colour depth though? (256 colors I seem to
> remember)
>
> and as for DX9..... I want my app to still workin Win2k terminal
sessions.
> I would be surprised if DX9 was loaded on any termianl servers ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Greg Bielleman
>
>
>

Greg Bielleman wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply...
>
> Aren't GIFs a bit limited in colour depth though? (256 colors I seem to
> remember)

Yes

> and as for DX9..... I want my app to still workin Win2k terminal sessions.
> I would be surprised if DX9 was loaded on any termianl servers ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Greg Bielleman

Instead of DX9, they may have Media Player 9 installed, or could be
installed. There is an example of how to use a Media Player control at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...er_article.asp

Jeremy Hannon
Brainbench MVP
www.brainbench.com